This independent Negro movement is able to intervene with terrific force upon the general social and political life of the nation, despite the fact that it is waged under the banner of democratic rights ... [and] is able to exercise a powerful influence upon the revolutionary proletariat, that it has got a great contribution to make to the development of the proletariat in the United States, and that it is in itself a constituent part of the struggle for socialism.

The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.

All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.

The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.

Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.

Dissimulation is the refuge of the slave.